Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Mama's Blackberry Cobbler & a Granola GIVEAWAY!!!!

Every year about this time, my buddy Aaron brings me a big ole bag of fresh, hand-picked blackberries from his family's berry bushes. Last year, I froze most of them for smoothies, but this year, I was cravin' cobbler — my Mama's Blackberry Cobbler to be specific:

It's naturally vegan, and since it's a family recipe, this one is definitely going in my cookbook. It's really quite simple — fresh, juicy blackberries and sugar are baked under a whole wheat crust topped with chunky turbinado sugar.

As it cooks, the berry juice creeps over the top crust. Just look at that gorgeous juice!:

A warm slice of this was perfect with a scoop of Soy Delicious Blueberry Cheesecake ice cream on the side.

Now for the giveaway: Remember my MixMyGranola post from a few days ago? I won a $20 gift certificate to create my own customized granola, and now the nice folks at MixMyGranola want to give another such certificate to one lucky random commenter from my blog.At MixMyGranola.com, you can choose your granola base (don't get the French vanilla ... it's not vegan ... I learned the hard way ... but the regular organic granola base is vegan), dried fruit and nuts, candy, and health powder supplements to create your very own personalized granola.

How do you win? Just head over to the MixMyGranola site and look through their customizable granola options. You can make a mix without going through the checkout. Then report back to my blog with a comment on your dream granola combo. In one week (next Wednesday, July 22nd), I'll use a random number generator to pick one lucky winner. Happy Granola-ing!!!

i love that you're mama's cobbler recipe is already vegan - that's so awesome! it's so pretty with the blackberry juice making the top all colorful! mmmmmmmmm! we have been picking blackberries every time we go out in the field behind our house and we've been freezing them until we get enough for a cobbler or pie. think i'm gonna have to go with cobbler, as yours looks most fantastical, Bianca!

i need to get my butt over to the granola site & see what combination would be most rock'n! w00t!

That cobbler looks so good! I love cobblers, and I haven't even made one yet this summer. Shame on me! (Don't enter me in the contest - even with a coupon, the shipping to France would be too high!) Good luck to everyone else!

It's too hard to pick an exact combo yet, but I would def go for the ingredients that were either more expensive to buy on your own for homemade granola, or really exotic. Like, dried strawberries, hemp + chia seeds, and amaranth!

Mine was very simple. Orangic granola, dried strawberries and the coconut.Do you have to ship this yourself or is it a gift certificate that u will be giving away?If it is a gift certificate enter me because I do not want u paying all that money to ship to be in the Caribbean.

Holy crap I just spent waaaaay too long on that site trying to decide what I would put in my granola! I also read that their organic gummy bears are VEGAN! I don't want gummy bears in my granola (ick!), but I think think that's pretty awesome.

oh man! I've been entering all the granola contests I can find, and still haven't won any yet. I usually make my own granola, but I love that site, and I love the idea of someone else making my granola for me! :)

My name is Bianca ...

About Me

I'm a 9-year vegan, 19-year vegetarian from the Mid-South, not too far from the muddy banks of the Mississippi River. And that means cornbread, butter beans, and collard greens.
These days, I live in Memphis. Check out my cookbook — Cookin' Crunk. It's filled with yummilicious veganized soul food and country classics.